News 2013 October 4

Keppel signs MOU with PEMEX

Some roadmap activities of Customs Administration Improvement are not fulfilled

Sarjak Container Lines appoints GAC SRI LANKA as exclusive agent

Response to 1,500-tonne oil spill in port Primorsk involved 350 persons, a source says

Russian ports of Gulf of Finland to be presented by CNN with IAA PortNews assistance (photo)

Kongsberg Maritime delivers new Polaris ship's bridge simulator for IMT in Mexica

Evergreen receives Lloyd's List Environmental Award

Hiab secures an order for 70 loader cranes to Marshalls in the UK

NYK containership rescues yacht crew in distress

Bureau Veritas acquires OTI Canada Group

Hapag-Lloyd changes PAX service

GE Power Conversion to supply power and propulsion system for India’s first diesel–electric ship

European Commission publishes study on port labour

Panalpina sets up new MEAC region office

Container traffic of Transsib up 17.5% to 415,000 TEUs in Jan-Aug’13

MAN Diesel & Turbo signes an agreement with Dalian Marine Propeller

Zaliv Shipyard commenced reconstruction of graving dock and modernization of workshops

Paragon Shipping announces the acquisition of two newbuilding Ultramax drybulk carriers

Rolls-Royce advanced seismic research vessel delivered in China

Bunker prices in port St. Petersburg slightly declined in late 40th week (graph)

KEN developed Reefer RoRo vessel

MOL to build and charter world’s largest FSRU in Uruguay

Baltic Dry Index up to 2,047 points

Oil price down to $109 in London and down to $103.31 in New York

Hydrocarbon resources on Russian continental shelf assessed at 115 bln t of conventional fuel, Sergei Donskoi says

Bunker prices in port Novorossiysk continue declining in late 40th week (graph)

Sinopec takes delivery of Rolls-Royce designed seismic RV FA XIAN6

Persons involved in criminal case over attack on Prirazlomnaya platform accused of piracy

Vladimir Putin declaims against placing Arctic under international control

Allocation of responsibilities of Russian Deputy Prime Ministers